muscadier
French, noun/mys.ka.dje/
muscadier is spelled M-U-S-C-A-D-I-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written French, the 196,291st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Muscadier is a French masculine noun meaning “nutmeg (an evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre d'arbre de la famille des (myristicacées), qui fournit la noix de muscade comme fruit (nom…”.
What does muscadier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenutmeg (an evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre d'arbre de la famille des (myristicacées), qui fournit la noix de muscade comme fruit (nom scientifique: Myristica fragrans). 2. Nom générique donné abusivement aux torréyas, qui sont des conifères du genre Torreya et de la famille des taxacées (e.g. ifs), i.e. sans lien de parenté avec le muscadier (Myristica fragrans), en raison de leurs propriétés aromatiques. 3. Autre nom vernaculaire spécifique de quelques espèces de torréyas telles le torréya de Californie, ou torréya muscadier (Torreya californica) et le torréya japonais (ou torréya muscadier du Japon (T. nucifera)).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of muscadier
- muscadiers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce muscadier?
- /mys.ka.dje/
- \mys.ka.dje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to muscadier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is muscadier in French?
muscadier appears about once in every 38 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).